xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation

https://xkcd.com/2940

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My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

https://xkcd.com/2939

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PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

https://xkcd.com/2938

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Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

https://xkcd.com/2937

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Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

https://xkcd.com/2936

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Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

https://xkcd.com/2935

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I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

https://xkcd.com/2934

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Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

https://xkcd.com/2933

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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

https://xkcd.com/2931

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Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

https://xkcd.com/2930

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From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

https://xkcd.com/2929

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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

https://xkcd.com/2928

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The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

https://xkcd.com/2927/

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Poor Weeoming.

https://xkcd.com/2926

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The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

https://xkcd.com/2925/

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It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

https://xkcd.com/2924

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The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

https://xkcd.com/2923

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Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.

https://xkcd.com/2922

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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

https://xkcd.com/2921

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Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

https://xkcd.com/2920

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Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.

https://xkcd.com/2919/

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First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.